store; shop; establishment; restaurant
alone; by oneself; on one's own
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
Japanese food; Japanese-style meal; Japanese cuisine
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
finely chopped fish or meat (sometimes seared first); mince; hitting (e.g. a drum); striking; bashing; criticizing
water; (drinking) water; night entertainment business; nightlife worker; racy; titillating
to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
of late; lately; this part; this point; here
succession; continuation; series; sequence
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
stairs; stairway; staircase
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
to fry; to saute; to stir-fry
to get to know each other; to make acquaintance
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
thank you for the meal; that was a delicious meal; what a wonderful meal
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
wasteful; a waste; too good; more than one deserves; impious; profane
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
preparation; arrangements
to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry
season (e.g. fruit, fish); in vogue; popular; fresh
(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards
alumni association; graduates' association; alumni meeting; class reunion
launching; launch; end (of a theatrical run, etc.); closing party (e.g. a theater show); cast party